Question: Do you think your hard working tenants (even with the best referencing in the world), who have paid the rent on time for years, are safe?… If so, then please think again !! We say this because over the last 10 years the UK has seen a surge in larger companies going bust, announcing

Are you a new landlord, or a landlord who just needs a refresher? If so, HMRC has the online help and support you need. These live webinars will provide an overview on the tax treatment of income and expenses for renting out UK property, furnished holiday lettings and the rent a room scheme. Join from

Mark Carney has announced limits, restricting the amount that homeowners can borrow relative to their income and tightening the affordability tests (which began on 30th April this year) that property buyers face when applying for a mortgage. He said there would be no immediate impact on fast-rising property values. The new measures will only start

Do you consider yourself a professional landlord? If you let any kind of property, you should; even if you let just one house, you are subject to the same legal requirements as property developers with a whole string of property under their belts. Of course, career landlords will have trusted agents or employees to take

The biggest worry facing a live in landlord is the kind of person their lodger might be (aside from whether they’re simply compatible) – are they a criminal, likely to be violent or damage your home? Will they pay the rent on time? Will they respect you and your home? It’s a staggering fact that

Cowboy builders and other types of rogue tradesmen are a well known and distressing problem for home owners, but what if you’re a landlord? As a landlord, you’re not simply responsible for the maintenance and repair of your property, but bear the much greater responsibility of ensuring that your tenant’s home is maintained in good

Following on from Benefit Street, and the headline story about the Ferguson’s serving notice on their tenants on Local Housing Allowance, we need to have an honest and balanced debate about benefits, in a similar fashion to Nick Robinson’s The Truth About Immigration. Although it seems that in today’s multi cultural Britain, we are far

It was reported at the end of July that over half of the landlords who entered the property market so far this year have done so for short-term gain, enticed by the low rates that the Funding for Lending Scheme has helped to encourage. This is despite the warnings contained in the same report, issued

Void periods can be a landlord’s worst nightmare, most landlords rely on the income a property generates to pay its mortgage and whilst the property is empty as the owner you will also be liable for council tax and any bills that the property incurs. At present the average void period in the UK is